I kept looking and searching in the media to find out what the budget at the UW System is for the next 2 years. All I could find was the caterwauling about the $250 million dollar cuts over 2 years. Finally found this at Right Wisconsin:
“The overall budget for the UW System is $6,098 million per year. (Another way of saying $6.1 billion.) The $150 million cut per year represents about 2.5 percent of the total yearly operating budget.”
Actually the cuts have been reduced to $125 million per year. That seems doable. Thank you Charlie Sykes.
Yeah, wouldn’t it be great if Walker could do for education what he has done for Job Creation in Wisconsin?
The agency he created, WEDC, has only spent 975 million tax dollars. The result is a net loss of -7,000 jobs. Sixty percent of the companies receiving those funds were Walker donors and they outsourced thousands of jobs overseas.
Wisconsin is 40th in job creation and 50th in new business startups.